Protected ticket-package.



L. A. BRIDGES.

PROTECTED TICKET PACKAGE. APPLIQATION FILED 01:021. 1915.

Patented July 11, 1916. y

WITNESS ATTORNEY LYMAN A. BRIDGES, 0F BURLINGAME, CALIFORNIA.

PROTECTED TICKET-PACKAGE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July ill, 1946.

Application filed December 27, 1915. Serial No. 68,710.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LYMAN A. BRIDGES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burlingame, in the county of San Mateo and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Protected Ticket-Packages, .of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to ticket-packages and particularly to assemblages of local card railroad tickets in sealed or protected packages which, while still intact, may be treated as units for inventory and auditlng purposes.

The practice and advantages of thus assembling and protectively sealing local card tickets in packages of definite number are now well known and need no further reference.

Improvement in the art must, in general, proceed along the line of increased insurance against surreptitious or unlawful tampering or interference, consistent with sunplicity and economy in packing, and, consequently, I have in view, as the ob ect of my invention, the'provision of a ticketpackage which while easy to prepare and involving but slight expense, is still so completely and effectively protected as to make it practically proof against undiscoverable disturbance.

To this end, my invention consists in the novel protected ticket-package which I shall now fully describe by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a plle of tickets tied with a string. Fig. 2 1s a perspective view of a carton of the collapsible type partially expanded. Fig. 3 IS a perspective view of the upper portion of the carton showing the pile of tickets Within it, and the ends of the string passed through the holes in the sides of the carton. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, showing the addition of the sealing-strip. 'Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the completed protected and sealed ticket-package. Fig. 6' is a longitudinal section, enlarged, of the upper part of the package taken in a plane through the holes in the sides of the carton.

The predetermined number of tickets 1 are assembled in a pile and tied tightly with a string 2, knotted at 3 at the top of the pile, as shown in Fig. 1. the ends 4 of the string beyond the knot being left free and long enough initially to be properly andeasily manipulated. A carton 5 of the collapsible type with an open top and an openable bottom, such, for example, as is shown in Fig. 2, is taken and, from its collapsed condition in which it was packed, is expanded to full proportions, and its bottom flaps 6 closed in, all in the usual manner of handling this form of carton. Two holes 7 are made in two of the opposing sides of the carton near theirupper ends. These holes may be made as part of the original manufacture of the carton, or they may be made afterward. The tied pile of tickets- 1 is slipped down through the open top of the carton until it fills the carton, and the free ends 4 of the string are passed from the inside outwardly through the holes 7 in the sides of the carton, as shown in Fig. 3.

Two features are here to be noted, first, that the holes 7 are in those sides of the carton which lie in planes parallel to the plane of the main-body of the string 2, so that, the free ends 4 of said string, in passing from the knot 3 to the holes 7, extend across the top of the ticket pile at right angles to those portions of the main body of the string which lead across the top to the knot, there by forming over the ticket pile a cross-tie, from which the uppermost ticket cannot be slipped; and, second, that the holes 7 are designedly appreciably greater in diameter than the diameter of the string, so that the string ends 4 pass loosely and freely through them for a purpose to be presently explained. In fitting the string endselthrough the holes, said ends may initially be left long enough, as shown in Fig. l, to be passed through the holes before the ticket pile is entered into the carton, or they may be threaded thiough afterward by the exercise of dexterity or by a needle, or inany convenient manner. r

After the stage shown in Fig. 3 is reached, a sealing-strip 8 is applied to the carton, as shown in Fig. 4. his strip may be of any suitable material, say a tape for example, but in practice, it is a strip of paper. It may have printed upon it, for the sake of completeness and identification. the com panys name or mark as is indicated at 9. It passes down one of the sides of the carton in which the hole 7 is made, across the openable bottom thereof. as shown in Fig. 5, which it thereby seals, and up the opposite side, as shown in Fig. 6, and it is gummed fast to the surfaces of contact. Its upper ends extend to the vicinity of the holes 7, and lie under the hanging string ends 4, as seen in Fig. l. Sealing wax 10, as shown in Fig. 5, is dropped over the hole 7 upon the upper end of the sealing strip 8 and upon the projecting end 4 of the string 2, and upon said wax is impressed a design thereby making a distinctive seal. This seal is placed on both sides of the carton, as shown in Fig. 6; The surplus of the string ends 4 is cut off at the edge of the seal 10.

As previously mentioned the holes 7 are appreciably larger in diameter than the string ends 4. This is shown, somewhat exaggerated in Fig. 6. The object of this is to permit some of the wax of the distinctive seal 10, to pass through the holes, as shown at 11 in Fig. 6, and to more 01' less hook in behind and engage the inner surface of the carton sides and even to slightly adhere to the edges of the tickets which lie in its neighborhood, thereby forming a more perfeet lock than if the seal lie wholly on the exterior surface. The completed package is shown in Fig. 5.

It will be seen that maximum protection is afforded, consistent with simplicity in preparation and cheapness in construction. The ticket-pile while visible at its top for identi fication, is there protected by the crossing of the string. At the bottom the pile is protected by the sealing strip 8. Both sealing strip 8 and string ends 4. are protected by the distinctive seal 10. If the ticket pile be pulled upon the string 2 must break the seals 10, and the same result Will follow any attempt to loosen the string -.by stretching it; nor is it feasible to remove intact, by heat or otherwise, the locking seals 10, to enable the sealing strip 8 to be sweated oil and the string ends 4 to be ieleased; nor if the seals 10 be removed by destroying them, can others be substituted for them in the absence of the impression die.

1. A ticket-package comprising a ticket pile; a string tying saidpile, with its free ends extending over and beyond opposite edges of the top of said pile; a carton inclosing said ticket-pile and having holes in opposite sides through which the .free ends of the tying string pass from the inside outwardly; and means for sealing the projecting ends of the string.

2. A ticket-package comprising a ticketpile; a string tying said pile, with its free 7 ends extending over and beyond opposite edges of the top of said pile; a carton inclosing said ticket-pile and having holes in opposite sides through which the free ends of the tying string pass from the inside outwardly; and a sealing member applied to the outer surface of the carton sides over the holes therein and upon the projecting ends of the string.

3. A ticket-package comprising a ticketpile; a string tying said pile, with its free ends extending over and beyond opposite edges of the top of said pile; a carton inclosing said ticket-pile, and having holes in opposite sides through which 'the free ends of the tying string pass from the inside outwardly, said holes being appreciably larger in diameter than the diameter of the string ends; and a sealing member of wax applied to the outside of the carton sides upon the projecting string ends, a portion of said wax passing through said holes to the inside.

i. A ticket-package comprising a ticketpile; a tying-string around said pile in one plane with its free ends extending over the top of the pile in opposite directions in a plane at right angles to the plane of the body of the string; a carton inclosing said ticket-pile and having holes in those of its sides which lie parallel with the plane of the string body, the free ends of the string passing through said holes from the inside outwardly; and means for sealing the projecting ends of the string.

-5. A ticket-package comprising a ticketpile; a tying-string around said pile in one plane with its free ends extending over the top of the pile in opposite directions in a plane at right angles to the plane of the body of the string; a carton inclosing said ticket-pile and having holes in those of its sides which lie parallel with the plane of the string body, the free ends of the string passing through said holes from the inside outwardly; and a sealing member applied to the outer surface of the carton sides over the holes therein and upon the projecting ends of the string.

6. A ticket-package comprising a ticketpile; a tying-string around said pile in one plane with its free ends extending over the top of the pile in opposite directions in a plane at right angles to the plane of the body of the string; a carton inclosing said ticket-pile and having holes in those of its sides which lie parallel with the plane of the string body, the free ends of the string passing through said holes from the inside outwardly, and said holes being appreciably larger in diameter than the diameter of the string ends; and a sealing member of wax applied to the outside of the carton sides upon the projecting string ends, a portion of said wax passing through said holes to the inside.

7. A ticket-package comprising a ticketpile; a string tying said pile, with the free ends extendlng over and beyond opposite edges of the top of said pile; a carton inclosing said ticket-pile, said carton having an openable bottom, and having holes in opposite sides through which the free ends of the tying string pass from the inside outwardly; a sealing strip adherently applied top of the pile in opposite directions in a plane at right angles to the plane of the body'of the string acarton inclosing said 15 ticket-pile, said carton having an openable bottom and having holes in those of the sides which lie parallel with the plane of the string body, the free ends of the string passing through-said holes from the'inside outwardly; a sealing strip adherently ap plied to the outer surfaces of the said sides.

' and bottom .of the carton the ends of said strip lying in the vicinity of the holes in said sides; and a sealing member applied to the outer surface of the carton sides over the holes therein and upon the ends of the sealing strip and. the projecting ends of the string.

9. A ticket-package comprising a ticketpile; a tying-stringaround said pile in one plane, with its free ends extendingover the top of the pile in opposite directions in a plane atright angles to the plane of the body of the string; a carton'inclosing said ticket-pile; said carton having an openable bottom and having holes in those of the sides which lie parallel with the plane of the string body, the free ends of the string passing through said holes from the inside outwardly, and said holes being appreciably larger in diameter than the diameter of the string ends; a sealing strip adherently applied to the outer surfaces of the said sides and bottom ofthe carton, the ends of said strip lying in the vicinity of the holes in said sides; and a'sealing member of wax applied to the outer surface of the carton sides over the holes therein and upon the ends of the sealing strip and the projecting ends of the string,, a portion of said Wax passing through said holes to the inside.

Intestimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LYMAN A. BRIDGES. Witnesses WM. F. BooTH, D. B. RICHARDS. 

